192 - Pepper's Ghost
Don't Look Now
English - October 18, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsSociety & Culture Science comedy storytelling random culture science history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Listen in and learn about Pepper's Ghost, an illumination technique developed in the the 1860s and still in use today to project ghostly images onto the stage where they can be seen to appear in apparent three dimensional reality. The technique has had a resurgence in recent decades allowing a deceased Tupac to perform at Coachella, and Michael Jackson to perform at the Billboard Music Awards.